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    Coastguard Creek - 15 months of planning!

    By SouthernRegionSteam

    Hold on to your socks - this is going to be a lengthy one! (In fact it's so long, I've now split it into 2 separate posts - the next will be up soon...)   I think it's fair to say that you are all long overdue an update on Coastguard Creek. Due to other commitments, no real progress has been made since the last post way back in March 2021; almost 15 months ago! If anything, things went backwards for quite a while, as I kept finding more and more inspiring locations that I really wanted
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Sylvian Tennant's archive of pants!

Bolster the effort!

Okay I'll refrain form silly titles... nah I'll continue really.   Anyway, my little stint weathering my friends pannier got me in the modelling mood again. So, rather than sitting there idle dreaming about my modelling future. I did something. And here's the result.   I'm planning four different types of block freigt trains for possible future use on my clubs layout. An oil trian, coal train, van train and finally a bolster train. As with most of BR steam era trains, despite being a block w
Sylvian Tennant

Sylvian Tennant

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Sylvian's commissions

My first commission! Well proud I am!

So a friend of mine saw my work and though, "By jove that's good" I don't know why though, I always seem to find something I could have done better. Well anyway a brief conversation ensued followed by delivery of the package.   The package turned out to be a second hand Wachy Bachy 87xx Pannier in post war GWR livery. The task was To give it a worked in look ,noot too dirty but must have looked like an engine in use. So I set about ruining his poor model.   Here are the results.    
Sylvian Tennant

Sylvian Tennant

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Colwyn Bay Goods - 2mm Finescale

Herring Mk IV

The on going saga of my first attempt at etch design lumbers forward once again. Modifications include -   1) Finally I created some axle boxes and springs. Layer etch, Stephen Harris style. 2) Brake rigging/rib issues have been resolved. They don't clash anymore! 3) Beefed up wire on pivot bar, 0.5mm wire from 0.3mm. 4) Clever tab system to line up hopper doors.   It might see production next year, if the slow rate of progress continues
Bryn

Bryn

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The Grime Street Blog

I Materialise Prime Grey SLA Great Central Long Car

First model from Belgium arrived about an hour ago, thought I'd share it with you....... Pics                   Overall, very very happy, there is some stepping on the curved front section, but that's very easily solved, detail and smoothness, very good, quick turn around, and excellent support over models that might need a bit of attention before printing, I'll be using them a lot in future, admittedly you have to spend 100 euros for free shiping but for me it's worth
Red Devil

Red Devil

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Sidcup

"Thoughts on the upcoming Hornby 4VEP"

I don't know much, if anything, about EMUs (Electric Multiple Units). I have only just started to understand the codes such as 4VEP, EPB, the number system, and similar, and why it is 2x2EPB and not simply 4EPB (which is entirely different!). So you could say I am having a baptism of fire in trying to research and develop a standalone layout based on Sidcup in the early 1990s!   However, the latest discussion on the Hornby 4VEPs have unnerved me somewhat. I've planned "Sidcup" around the Hornb
S.A.C Martin

S.A.C Martin

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General - Muz's modelling mastications

Bulleid Leader to make guest appearance at Midland Railex!

No not a full size one, obviously….   A while ago now I built my own 4mm model of Bulleid’s unconventional ‘Leader’, I utilised a kit of parts from Chris Meachen at Golden Arrow Productions.....snip....I shall be assisting Mike Wild, editor of Hornby Magazine, with exhibiting his Bay Street Shed MkII layout at this weekends Midland Railex exhibition (13th/ 14th August) . My Bulleid Leader model will make a guest appearance sneaking on to shed during the weekend.....snip   This is a
Graham_Muz

Graham_Muz

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Will's workbench

Larger than life?

I think this code 40 lark is going to be pretty good - pantograph and dodgy focus aside, I don't think the picture screams "this loco is 3 inches long"   In terms of layout progress, I've spread a tub of lightweight filler over some of the elevations previously built up from scraps of foam card and styrofoam.   I also made a code 40/code 60 join by soldering the thinner section on top of flattened fishplates on the code 60, which I'm sure I read somewhere years ago as a suggestion for cod
Will Vale

Will Vale

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Llanduno( t ) in N

Its that time again....Llandudno hmmmmm...

Well folks, here I go again.....   After seding Foxfield Tunnel to the 'Great big layout graveyard in the sky', and after a breif break from modelling, I've decided to have another go!!   "Why Llandudno?" you might ask. Well, firstly, now having very limited space for a layout, a large run round layout or end-to-end is just not possible so a terminus it would have to be. Secondly, I always said that the next layout would be collapsable for both storage and transporting, with the faint possib
SPAD

SPAD

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Layout - Fisherton Sarum

Moving pictures

When exhibiting Fisherton Sarum at various exhibitions the arrival of a video camera being pointed at the layout usually precedes either a derailment or more likely an operator error, also aligning the turn table (currently still done by eye, although an automatic alignment method is on the drawing board) suddenly becomes tricky due to twitchy fingers on the control switch.   I am sure it is the red light of doom…if there isn’t already a law about it then there should be, maybe Farn
Graham_Muz

Graham_Muz

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Layout stored on the ceiling

Quick Hills added

Grace hase been pottering about with her layout trying to fit things in her river is coming on but for me the most interesting thing is her hills ( now then major ) she found some FlexiLiner; used as a substitute to moss for hanging baskets, in our local Homebase 1.5m x 0.6m for £4.99 To make the hills all she did was to crumpled some newspaper up and put the flexiliner on top and without a lot of mess the results below. The edges of the flexiliner can be frayed and I am sure it has a lot of o
emac

emac

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Will's workbench

0.5mm @ 1:220...

...works out as 110mm life size. It's the difference in height between code 40 and code 60 rail.     I blame thank James for starting me down this particular dark path. The further of the two parallel tracks in the picture is standard Märklin track using code 60 rail. The nearer is code 40 rail threaded into Märklin sleeper bases, with the tops of the chairs/spikes/clips dressed with a sanding stick afterwards. And it works! The rails are held in gauge, and the trains run along it without
Will Vale

Will Vale

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Hydraulic Heaven

Hawksworth Full Brake - II

The full brake is ready for the paint shop, all bar a few bits of fettling. I don't intend to write a blow by blow account here - after all the kit comes with instructions, so I'll stick to the main places where I have gone 'off piste'.   Unlike David 71's build, I opted for using solder for all of the brass to brass joints. I stuck to cored electrical solder plus Carrs Green Label flux because I find this stronger and less messy than using lower melting point solder pastes.   Footboards
D869

D869

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halfwit's fantastic workbench!

Austerity Conundrum

I dug out my Dapol Austerity today, quite by accident (I was looking for some wheels...) and found myself working on it for the first time in many years. I fitted the Gibson EM wheelset thats been hanging around with it, lopped off the centre steps and carved off the smokebox door dart and numberplate. Then I looked at the thing and thought 'do I really want to finish this loco?'. (Note that I had that thought AFTER fitting the new wheels!) The thing is, I like Austerities. But I'm not sure if
halfwit

halfwit

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Somewhere in Germany

Back in the old country with a lost Luxembourger

No wishing... I'm home. While the TV throws out scenes that might make some wish to leave, I'm loving the British summer and spending my time in tranquil surroundings where it's considered a riot if hooligans knock over a dustbin.   I seem to be doing well for German bargains. First my father gave us an Audi 80 to tide us over, then my wife found a very tidy Passat for good money, and finally the Hobby Shop put a loco I'd been considering buying on special offer. So I stopped considering bu
Taigatrommel

Taigatrommel

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The Grime Street Blog

Pyewipe Car Shed?

First of the GC long car prints arrived today, I've more coming in the next couple of days including some in 'Prime Grey' from I Materialise, anyway I seem to have a few bodies around so, now beginning to wonder if a model of Pyewipe Car Shed might happen at some stage.......     6 Gatesheads and 2 GC long cars!   Some long car pics showing a bit more detail, I think the GC cars will either use a Halling E mech, ( the articulated one) made rigid or perhaps 2 Bachmann Brill drive units in
Red Devil

Red Devil

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Copley Hill Works

"Bachmann Thompson A2/3 - Graeme King Build"

There's something rather magical about Graeme King's modelling. The ability to turn a sow's ear into a silk purse - such as a commission he took on for me, making a Hornby Railroad A4 into a Gresley W1 last year.     This time around, it really is just amazing. I suggested to Graeme quite a while back that an A2/3 could be made from the latest Bachmann A2, and he agreed; he had been thinking on similar lines. We came to an agreement, whereby I would supply a Bachmann A2 for him to use
S.A.C Martin

S.A.C Martin

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halfwit's fantastic workbench!

RT Models Ruston 48DS Chassis Test Etch

A package arrived in the post a couple of weeks ago from Robert of RT Models containing the test etch for a simple chassis designed to power a Ruston 48DS, either the popular A1Models kit or the rarer Impetus kit. Its designed to be very simple to build and to use a High Level Slimliner+ gearbox with a Mashima motor. Here's the nickel silver etch;     And folded up;     The drive is to one axle only, the other features simple compensation, the axle pivoting on the 'V' and running in
halfwit

halfwit

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The Saltney Railway

Signals and Washing

Fitted a banner repeater signal and the home signal it repeats. Both are worked by the now standard micro servos. Steve has finished the cottages. Someone's moved in and got the washing out already .   Work will now concentrate on building & fitting the rest of the mainline signals and monitoring the working of the Dingham couplings fitted to some of the stock.   Someone say Dinghams?... Next time we'll have a look at those....   More Soon.....
Jon Fitness

Jon Fitness

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PGN's Blog

What's on shed?

At the moment I'm building up my collection of stock before I start on my first dedicated pre-Grouping layout (which will depict Shalford Junction in 1921: LSWR, LBSC and SECR all running their trains over the same metals - and mud in the eye to all those whingers who bleat "the trade doesn't do enough for those of us who want to model the Southern in N"!) and, perhaps inevitably, I'm initially focussing rather more on locomotives than on wagons and coaches.   I'm putting more emphasis on acqu
PGN

PGN

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Ullypug's tales from the tinking table

Clevedon refresh

Told you I'd get the boards for Clevedon out. First board now installed in the tinking room for wiring up. Have decided the loop turnouts will be driven via wire in tube from SPDT switches. The remainder surface mounted Caboose Industries turnout throws. Routed out the two end channels. Will backfill with Rocklite once the tubes are in. Feel like the modelling mojo's definitely returning. I plan to make the ballast look a lot more light railway is before it's finished. The first board will be e
ullypug

ullypug

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SNCF stephen's Blog

Summer Camp

Last week I wrote an entry about the camp by the lake. This entry is a progress report on this section of the layout.   So I got out the Busch camping set and had a go at placing them on the shore of the lake. It looked good enough to spur me on to do some more (the white stuff is cheap clay which I was using to do some scenery).     Thinking the adjacent board (which is removable) was a bit bare I added some cheaper trees to it to see how it might alter the look of the scene.    
SNCF stephen

SNCF stephen

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    • john new
      Painting some Dapol/Kitmaster workmen.

      By john new · Posted

      Next step completed after the six needed for a track gang have been painted and their foot pedestals clipped off. They will be fitted to the club layout (Axford) as a spot sleepering gang.   First lesson learnt by the experience - it will be easier in future to trim the foot block and drill for the pins before doing the painting.   The reason for the track gang is the l/hand divergent track on this board no longer goes anywhere as it now feeds a single entry sector plate. The
    • bcnPete
      Making Mountains

      By bcnPete · Posted

      This is fabulous Mike.   Thanks for sharing your techniques and it looks stunning in the setting - as Mikkel says, my kinda place!   A nice story and I do hope that they have success.   Love it in BR blue mode too 😀
    • gwr517
      Edwardian motorcars (2): British Ford T Late 1912

      By gwr517 · Posted

      Thankyou for the info.I want a British car but French or American would be OK. My "Dr" from Motley End could do with one of those modern contraptions! Railway modelling causes us all to be very aware of every aspect of life in our chosen era. Its part of the attraction. I could give your Postman a lesson or two in handling parcels also!
    • Mikkel
      Edwardian motorcars (2): British Ford T Late 1912

      By Mikkel · Posted

      Thank you Chris and Mike for the input on wording, "motor cars" it is then.   Douglas those 1960s car rallys sound good. There's an annual vintage fair here in Denmark that we sometimes go to. Here's a 1926 Ford T from a couple of years ago.       Returning to the DAPR 3D prints, I have been in touch with Ben of DAPR. He says that they are still available if you enquire. He also has them with the roof drawn up, and in pickup versions.   He says he co
    • gwr517
      Edwardian motorcars (2): British Ford T Late 1912

      By gwr517 · Posted

      No but a modeller freind has owned and restored 3 early T models. Also I was draged to many Veteran car rallys in the 1960's. My dad being a fan.I have owned 50 cars and 24 m/cycles but only one car and one m/cycle were vintage, a1925 Bullnose Morris and a 1926 AJS bike. I have riden a few veteran bikes in rallys though., great fun.

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